You'll shoot your eye out
Master
- Jan 21, 2011
- 1,781
- 48
As we know there is an ongoing campaign against pocket carry. Kirk has a never-ending supply of news stories about dropped and/or left behind guns and many ND's. On the other side are several of us that aren't buying it even in the face of the evidence. (pleading guilty here)
Now I am seeing a thread on what pants a guy should get to pocket carry that won't reveal his gun. That thread has several suggestions on cargo pockets, and this gives me the hee-bee gee-bees!. I have stated many times here that I could be hit by a car and my gun can't fly out. I know this not because I was hit by a car but rather because I fell out of the back of a pick-up truck. I rolled several yards, lost a shoe, but my gun was snug in my front pocket.
It dawns on me that had I been in cargo pants, my gun probably would have flown down the street! cargo pockets are big floppy bags with flip-tops. Not only could a gun easily fall out but any six-year-old-girl could simply pick it right out! (shameless, thinly veiled dig at open carry)
I have to wonder what kind of pants are letting all of these guns flop out all over town? The pants pictured in the other thread that shows the butt of the gun hanging out is no better than cargo pockets. Those pockets naturally dump out behind you as you sit down. Maybe it's not that pocket-carry is dangerous so much as nice pants or slacks are dangerous.
Just an observation while reading posts......
Now I am seeing a thread on what pants a guy should get to pocket carry that won't reveal his gun. That thread has several suggestions on cargo pockets, and this gives me the hee-bee gee-bees!. I have stated many times here that I could be hit by a car and my gun can't fly out. I know this not because I was hit by a car but rather because I fell out of the back of a pick-up truck. I rolled several yards, lost a shoe, but my gun was snug in my front pocket.
It dawns on me that had I been in cargo pants, my gun probably would have flown down the street! cargo pockets are big floppy bags with flip-tops. Not only could a gun easily fall out but any six-year-old-girl could simply pick it right out! (shameless, thinly veiled dig at open carry)
I have to wonder what kind of pants are letting all of these guns flop out all over town? The pants pictured in the other thread that shows the butt of the gun hanging out is no better than cargo pockets. Those pockets naturally dump out behind you as you sit down. Maybe it's not that pocket-carry is dangerous so much as nice pants or slacks are dangerous.
Just an observation while reading posts......